Questions tagged [users]
Tools that help with user profiles/accounts, or issues with the API handling of users
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How do I get information about top users of a Stack Exchange community?
I was going through the stack exchange API and I want to extract information about, say, top 20 users of a particular stack exchange community. How do I use the API for that?
I tried on this page ...
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Paging issue: is /users/{ids}/associated API route returning incomplete information?
When querying to find associated accounts for a list of account ids, some ids in the results appear to be missing many of the associated sites. I have only observed this in multi-page responses. For ...
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Getting the top answerers/users for a tag in a custom time range?
I'm trying to use the top answers on tags API to get the users who contribute the most for a given tag. Like so:
/2.2/tags/azure-web-sites/top-answerers/month?site=...
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How can I get a user's Meta site details in the API call?
This query returns the details of the Main sites only:
/associated-users#ids=2855348
How can I get the Meta site details also in the same query?
Do I need to add any ...
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Provide a way to get display name via access token
Please include a new (network) method with the ability to gather display name and profile image directly via access token.
Right now to retrieve this information you have to first authenticate a ...
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Moderation request: Make [user] a synonym of [users]
Please make user a synonym of users.
I proposed a synonym but there aren't enough high-rep users active here for that mechanism to work.
Currently*:
user has 5 questions, no tag wiki and no tag ...
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Can I change my profile picture using the API version 2?
I was considering making an app that lets the user design a profile picture and then activate it on the user's Stack Exchange account. Could a feature to change the profile picture be added to the ...
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How to calculate users, who have posted (question/answer) using specific tag?
For example, if I want to know the number of users who asked and answered about PHP.
Currently, I can just get the list of questions and its total number, but it's not enough, because one user could ...
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How to get the "People reached" stat of a user, using the API? [duplicate]
I checked the user ids and advanced search API docs, but I could not get this stat. Does Stack Exchange provide this info in the API?
/2.2/users/{ID}?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=...
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What is "accept_rate" in the Stack Exchange API?
when I call the /users path, like:
/docs/users-by-ids#&ids=1&site=stackoverflow
In the reply, I get a field called accept_rate.
What is that field about?
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Plans to expose details from the "accounts" tab of the user page?
One thing that I noticed was missing from the /users/ API was an ability to see what other Stack Exchange sites the user is associated with (what's usually available from the "accounts" tab of the ...
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Show when user is online
I apologize if this already exist, but i could not find it.
My question is, is there a real-time display next to the user question if that user is still on line or not.
Something like this (green ...
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API for getting multiple (yet specific users)
I am developing one app which will be used internally in our company. We are recommending our colleagues to contribute to StackOverflow. To keep the moral of employees high, I am planning to develop ...
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The `top_questions` field shows outdated information?
I am using Stack Exchange API. I posted question from the doc page /questions/add to Stack Overflow. This was my first question. As that question was to check the function /questions/add, means it was ...
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How do I get a user's bio with the SE API?
Am I just missing something here or is there not a way to retrieve a user's bio with the SE API? I looked at the documentation under the "Users" section, but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions?
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StackPlonk: plonk users you don't want to help anymore
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If you really don't want to help some user anymore, go to his profile page, and click the Plonk button next to his name. Every question of this user will then have a ...
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Encoding type of display_name
I am using the v2.2 api. There is a small issue I have come across.
For the display_name I do not understand the encoding. For example for this user, the name comes as Mike Sherrill 'Cat ...
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Method /users/{id}/top-answer-tags is returning wrong results
I'm trying the following request:
(555004 happens to be my user id)
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/555004/top-answer-tags
and I'm a bit confused by the result:
{
top_tags: [
{
...
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Pagination of users ordered by reputation
I know I can retrieve a page of users ordered by reputation using these apis:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/?sort=reputation&order=desc&page=1
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/...
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Does an access using the API count towards the user's consecutive days total?
Supposing I knock up a quick Python script that uses Py-StackExchange (or similar) to visit stackoverflow, retrieve a recent question, etc.; and then run a cron job to do this a couple of times a day.....
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Something's changed about user timelines
Six to Eight's user display has just broken, as the /user/id/timeline route seems to have started returning different data. Previously, timeline_type of entries in the user_timelines array used to be ...
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Problem getting a users questions within a date range
I'm having a problem returning a list of users questions within a given timespan. I understand that the documentation ( http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/help/method?method=users/{id}/questions ) that ...
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Suddenly, some entries on /questions route are missing display_name
An odd bug has developed this morning. At the moment, api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions is returning a question of the format...
... },
{
"tags": [
"jsf-2.0"
],
"...
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Problem getting a users answers within a date range
This issue is similar to Problem getting a users questions within a date range. Only this time I'm calling a different api and getting unexpected results.
I'm calling
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/...
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/users/{ID}/reputation is returning a 500 error.
The following API request:
http://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/users/235/reputation?filter=%21DnBO_&site=askubuntu&page=1
...is returning an error:
{
error_id: 500,
error_name: "...
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